Examples

Dustin Diaz is on a roll :) He has posted about Roll out your own JavaScript Interfaces in which he discusses the desire to use style from libraries such as prototype, jquery and friends, yet in a small bit of code where you don’t want to use the library: There are times when using a Read the rest…

Justin Meyer and Brian Moschel created an application, Traffik, that “lists events from Google Calendar and shows the locations of those events in a map. Traffik shows only events with locations.” Where it differs from the usual calendar » maps mashup is that you can login, and the application can read private calendar data, and Read the rest…

Cuong Tham has written up an example of implementing asynchronous file upload using YUI. His example walks through the steps required to build the functionality, and ends up with the following simple meat: < View plain text > javascript function init(){ var onUploadButtonClick = function(e){ //the second argument of setForm is crucial, Read the rest…

A couple of Gears samples have been released. Arjun Kalura has created a database sync module that shows the progress of a sync between a remote database, and a local one. The example also uses the worker pool to execute SQL in its own thread and hence keeping the user interface freed up to show Read the rest…

Nick Edgar started to play around with the Workerpool component and decided to build a distributed Mandelbrot generator: A UI/administrator task would farm out work (columns in the Mandelbrot set) to different worker tasks, possibly running on different machines. As each worker sent in its result, the UI would draw the column, and respond with Read the rest…

Sometimes I feel a little bad when people enjoy a new component here or there, when there are tools such as TIBCO, Backbase, and Oracle ADF that have hundreds of them :) Oracle has released ADF Faces Rich Client Components Demo: A first technology preview of the Oracle ADF Faces Rich Client components is contained Read the rest…

Rick Blalock has released a free version of his MooTools video tutorial that covers: Lesson Two – De-Cluttering the Membership Page Lesson Three – Using MooTabs to Condense Related Products Lesson Four – Using a MooTools ‘Light Box’ to Create a Friendly Gallery Lesson Five – Using Fx.Styles to Control Font Size Lesson Six – Read the rest…

Timothy Lorens has created a XAJAX PHP Live Datagrid that is as simple to setup as: < View plain text > HTML <div id=â€œdataGridâ€ align=â€œcenterâ€></div> <script type=â€œtext/javascriptâ€> xajax_showDataGrid(); </script> xajax_showDataGrid is a callback where you get to implement methods such as passing back how many rows there are, and the rows to show.

Over on my personal blog I discussed Unobtrusive JavaScript, Microformats, and the Google AJAX Feed API. The posting discusses an example that creates a Feed Billboard using the Google AJAX Feed API released the other day. Here is the outcome: The fun part was creating a microformat that would degrade nicely: < View plain text Read the rest…

Guillermo Rauch is a sixteen year old hacker who created a fancy menu using CSS and JavaScript based on mootools. You can use his SlideList and attach away. < View plain text > javascript window.addEvent(‘domready’, function() { new SlideList($E(‘ul’, ‘fancymenu’), {transition: Fx.Transitions.backOut, duration: 700, onClick: function(ev, item) { ev.stop(); }}); }); Now you too Read the rest…

Tobie Langel likes a fistful of dollars and uses them to explain how to use auto scrolling page navigation with the new $$ operator in Prototype 1.5.1 RC. The article takes the initial: < View plain text > HTML <a href="#about" onclick="new Effect.ScrollTo(‘about’,{offset:-140}); return false">About</a> and gets it down to the unobtrusive: < View plain Read the rest…